Group of Migrants Come Back to Rogers Park to See Northern Lights, View It as Sign

Emotional return first one since Chicago Leone Beach Park shelter closed down with several others last month and forced to move

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When Chicago welcomed what has rise to around 44,000 migrants to the city the mayor didn’t exactly have a plan in place at the time. New to the position, he was more interested in establishing his extreme progressive agenda figuring he’d work out the details later I suppose. A year later he still has no plan and no ideas to quell the chaos that adding this many new resident to the city created, with no infrastructure set up for them. So they’ve been moved around, put out on the streets, housed in airports, police stations, the lobbies of hotels, and sometimes in Lake Front Beach Field Houses.

A group of 8 migrants who once lived about a block from me in the Leone Beach Park Fieldhouse, returned Friday night to view the Northern lights.
They discussed not just the outing, but for the first time disclosed conditions in the shelter they were hastily moved out of, their general treatment and what they’ve had to do to survive. They’ve asked that their real names not be used here.